The Earth Only Endures: On Reconnecting with Nature and Our Place in ItRoutledge, 04/05/2012 - 288 páginas For most of human history, we have lived our daily lives in a close relationship with the land. Yet now, for the first time, more people are living in urban rather than rural areas, bringing about an estrangement. This book, by acclaimed author Jules Pretty, is fundamentally about our relationship with nature, animals and places. A series of interlinked essays leads readers on a voyage that weaves through the themes of connection and estrangement between humans and nature. The journey shows how our modern lifestyles and economies would need six or eight Earths if the entire worlds population adopted our profligate ways. Pretty shows that we are rendering our own world inhospitable and so risk losing what it means to be human: unless we make substantial changes, Gaia threatens to become Grendel. Ultimately, however, the book offers glimpses of an optimistic future for humanity, in the very face of climate change and pending global environmental catastrophe. |
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... imagination alone, which changes the land as it appears to us. 'Animal magic' centres on our relations with animals and the land, our depictions of animals, our links with pets, and the emergence of big cats in the imagined xi PREFACE.
... emergence of big cats in the imagined and real British landscapes. The third part, 'Food and the land', begins with ... emerge from a continuous engagement with both genes and the environment. Unfortunately, we are now making a world ...
... has an average temperature of 13°C. The emergence of life changed the Earth to make it more favourable to the survival of life. It didn't intend to. It just did. As the oxygen is produced by early plants, the atmosphere.
... emerged. At this time, the atmosphere is still a reducing one, and there is no free oxygen. An astonishing amount of ... emerge. We are still 1.5 billion years away from the present. These first organisms all relied on other chemical ...
... emergence of life changed the Earth to make it more favourable to the survival of life. It didn't intend to. It just did. As the oxygen is produced by early plants, the atmosphere reaches about a fifth oxygen, which, with its associated ...
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Part 2 Animals and Us | 53 |
Part 3 Food and the Land | 97 |
Part 4 People and the Land | 153 |
Part 5 The Future | 195 |
Notes | 223 |
References | 243 |
Index | 267 |
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